Historic capital : preservation, race, and real estate in Washington, D.C.

Historic capital : preservation, race, and real estate in Washington, D.C. /

"For much of the postwar era, Washingtonians battled to make the city their own, fighting the federal government over the basic question of home rule, the right of the citys residents to govern their local affairs. Urban historian Cameron Logan examines how the historic preservation movement pl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Logan, Cameron, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Subjects:
City planning > Social aspects > Washington (D.C.)
Historic preservation > Social aspects > Washington (D.C.)
Federal-city relations > Washington (D.C.)
Land use > Social aspects > Washington (D.C.)
ARCHITECTURE > History > Contemporary (1945- )
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
City planning > Social aspects
Federal-city relations
Historic preservation > Social aspects
Land use > Social aspects
Washington (D.C.)
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From "Life Inside a Monument" to Neighborhoods with Life
  • 1. Value: Property, History and Homeliness in Georgetown
  • 2. Taste: Architectural Complexity and Social Diversity in the 1960s
  • 3. The White House and Its Neighborhood: Federal City Making and Local Preservation, 1960-1975
  • 4. Race and Resistance: Gentrification and the Critique of Historic Preservation
  • 5. Whose Neighborhood? Whose History? Expanding Dupont Circle, 1975-1985
  • 6. Rhodes Tavern and the Problem with Preservation in the 1980s
  • 7. Modernist Urbanism as History: Preserving the Southwest Urban Renewal Area
  • Conclusion: Preservation, Profits and Loss.

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